On Wed, Sep 18, 2024 at 08:58:22AM -0000, Danny Grenningloh wrote:
Thanks for the answers Stefan.
Out of curiosity, any particular reason why we only have the production branch available in Tumbleweed and not the new feature branch? Is this just a matter of manpower or are there other reasons as well?
Manpower and also technical reason. Once I switch to feature branch driver there is no way back to make an update to the production branch driver. I made this error once. For months we had an unstable feature branch driver and people requested an update for the production driver. Otherwise we would need different driver package names for a feature branch driver. This more or less duplicates the work. We're back to manpower. Things are getting better with the additional 555 opengpu driver, which can be used together with the 555 graphics driver packages from the CUDA repository. But it lacks documentation how to install these. We would have written this documenation already, if NVIDIA wouldn't have broken it right again with 560/CUDA 12.6 release (by running "zypper dup" you might run into bigger troubles updating 555 with 560 driver packages). And it doesn't help users with Pascal or older GPUs from before year 2018 anyway. Sigh. Thanks, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Frankenstraße 146 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90461 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ---------------------------------------------------------------- Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew Myers, Andrew McDonald, Boudien Moerman (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------